RELIC is an Efficient LIbrary for Cryptography
RELIC is a modern cryptographic meta-toolkit with emphasis on efficiency and flexibility. RELIC can be used to build efficient and usable cryptographic toolkits tailored for specific security levels and algorithmic choices.
Goals
RELIC is an ongoing project and features will be added on demand. The focus is to provide:
- Ease of portability and inclusion of architecture-dependent code
- Simple experimentation with alternative implementations
- Tests and benchmarks for every implemented function
- Flexible configuration
- Maximum efficiency
Algorithms
RELIC implements to date:
- Multiple-precision integer arithmetic
- Prime and Binary field arithmetic (and preliminary ternary field arithmetic)
- Elliptic curves over prime and binary fields (NIST curves and pairing-friendly curves)
- Bilinear maps (Tate pairing over supersingular binary curves and optimal pairings over BN curves) and related extension fields
- Cryptographic protocols (RSA, Rabin, ECDSA, ECMQV, ECSS (Schnorr), Sakai-Ohgishi-Kasahara ID-based authenticated key agreement, Boneh-Lynn-Schacham and Boneh-Boyen short signatures)
